[Fat_Hippo]

Okay, in the old Fallout games, your character looked exactly the same as about 30% of the other people in the world, depending on what armor he was wearing, which completely negates the point of seeing you character, at least in the way your argued. What's the point of being able to see your character if you can't tell him apart from anyone else? How does that further role playing? (and since this is about Fallout, we'll be using Fallout as a basis for a real RPG.)

And LOTS of old RPGs used the first person. Games like Ultima Underworld. Elder Scrolls didn't invent first-person perspective in RPGs: it's just the only series that's still around and has stuck with it.

Other than that: yes, I get what you're saying. I'm sceptical about what the combat and gameplay is gonna be like. I just don't see how this is gonna make it less in terms of how good the role playing will be.

Unless they fuck up dialogue, as everyone expects them to. And the npcs.